Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????. Message-ID: <3746@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 24 Jul 90 19:29:09 GMT References: <1990Jul21.174535.8281@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1864@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 14 >80 or 90% of newsreaders are the same, the only exception I know of is >nn (which, by the by, is the best damn fine newsreader around) Well, Wayne says it's going to be soup soon; we'll see whether things change (although I'm told one of the GNU EMACS newsreaders also deals with threads reasonably, and there were some mutterings about "nn" picking up some of the threads stuff from "trn"). >(and for all I know was written by a native English speaker). The author posted it from a TI site in Denmark, where, as I remember, he works; I don't know if Kim is a Dane, an expatriate from an English-speaking country, or an expatriate from a non-English-speaking country.